The functional origins of speech-related hand gestures

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 206-215

  Whishaw, Ian Q ^a   Sacrey, Lori Ann R ^a   Travis, Scott G ^a   Gholamrezaei, Gita ^a   Karl, Jenni M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Avertic gesture; Deictic gesture; Evolution of language; Hand collection position; Hand stationed position language related gestures; Metaphoric gesture; Motor cortex and gesture; Skilled reaching; Spatic gesture; Speech and gesture

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; GESTURE; HAND FUNCTION; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MORPHOLOGY; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPEECH;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GESTURES; HAND; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MACACA MULATTA; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; RATS; SPEECH;

EID: 77955274516     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.05.026     Document Type: Article

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